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Year: 1901  |  Province: Northwest Territories

Yellow Grass, Northwest Territories (1901 census)

Yellow Grass was a census subdivision in Northwest Territories, recorded in the 1901 Census of Canada with a population of 200. The administrative centroid was at approximately 49.570°N, 104.167°W.

Population

In 1901, Yellow Grass had a population of 200: 130 male and 70 female residents. Population density was 0.2 people per square mile.

Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)

Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.

Earlier boundary forms

Later boundary forms

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1901

In the 1901 census, Yellow Grass shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1901

The 1901 census recorded 22 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories. Tables below are collapsible.

Population & families (12 variables)
VariableValue
Number of families72
Number of females70
Number of males130
Number of married females33
Number of married males38
Number of single females37
Number of single males88
Number of widowed males4
POP F70
POP M130
POP TOT200
Total population200
Buildings & housing (1 variable)
VariableValue
Number of houses72
Agriculture (1 variable)
VariableValue
Total area (acres)610,324
Other recorded variables (8 variables)
VariableValue
AREA AC610,324
FAMILIES72
HOUSES72
MARRIED F33
MARRIED M38
SINGLE F37
SINGLE M88
WIDOWED M4

Identifiers

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1901 Census of Canada, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan. Persistent place identity computed from spatial-overlap chains across all available census years (1851–1921). Identity grounding to Wikidata performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.

Cite this page

Clifford, J. (2026). "Yellow Grass, Northwest Territories (1901 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nt/yellow-grass-nt204079-1901/.